Real Time Strategy, The RTS HQ
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Rediscovering Lost Legends: 22 Forgotten Real-Time Strategy Games
Woah, most are unknown to me. A lot of which I haven’t even played. The only one I did was probably the Warlords Battlecry 3 and Battle Realms.
Praetorians Cossacks: Back to War Rise of Nations The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth The Settlers: Heritage of Kings Warrior Kings: Battles Submarine Titans ParaWorld Battle Realms Grey Goo Warlords Battlecry 3 Heroes of Annihilated Empires Age of Mythology: Extended Edition Armies of Exigo American Conquest Dragonshard Star Wars: Empire at War Kohan 2: Kings of War Aarklash Legacy Empire Earth Ancient Wars: Sparta Tzar: Burden of the Crown
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KKND remake - if you happen to posses the original game, then this project makes it possible to play it on more modern OpenRA engine
www.gamingonlinux.com The KKnD remake using the OpenRA engine has a first release outKKnD, the classic strategy game is being revived and the new open source project has the first release out.
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Any RTS with a substantial "Supply Route" as part of the strategy?
So I played Hearts of Iron 3 and Factorio, both games having "supply routes" of some kind.
In HoI3, soldiers only fight with full efficacy if they're regularly given 'Supplies', a resource. There's also "Fuel" which is needed for tanks and airplanes to function.
This means that in HoI3, you can effectively surround, and siege, units of soldiers. By surrounding a unit, they lose supplies and then fight at half (or worse) efficacy. It also does morale damage and other stacking penalties.
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Factorio isn't a real RTS, but it is much more granular on the supply route. It has a tower-defense like game vs the Biters. Every gun that fires in Factorio requires resources for that gun to fire.
As such: you think about where to place supplies. Or in Factorio terms: bullet magazines, rockets, electricity (if using lasers), Grenades, solid fuel or coal (depending on how you run your vehicles), etc. etc.
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I guess I'm looking at an RTS game that has these elements. I feel like "supplies" is one of the most fundamental strategies in the real world, but only is covered by a minority of games. Units in Starcraft or AoE2 just perform at full strength no matter what. No consideration of food or arrows (IIRC: Medieval Archers only entered battle with ~6 arrows IIRC. If they needed more, you needed a cart somewhere with additional arrows).
And slingers of history were well known to be able to march in the day, while crafting sling bullets at night (local rocks and clay could be used to create sling bullets, allowing slingers to self-sufficiently create their supplies). Its one of the reasons why slingers were used for so long in practice, because Arrows take far more skill to craft than sling-bullets. Even though the Bow-and-Arrow was a superior weapon, the sling continued to be used for centuries for its ease-of-supplying.
A game that handles these kind of supply issues or supply considerations would be great. Too many supplies just "teleport" to units where and whenever needed.
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Bonus points to Armored Brigade. While there's no "resupply" mechanic, there's very careful consideration on the amount of bullets a typical unit carries, and every bullet is tracked by the game. When you run out of shots, the unit basically is useless.
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Does the RTS genre need saving? An interesting take on RTS and its evolution
A worthwhile watch. An interesting perspective where RTS still exist, thriving; just not in the form we used to play.
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C&C:Red Alert Redux - do we need yet another C&C port to more modern engine? Of course we do.
www.moddb.com C&C Red Alert Redux v0.96 Demo Released! newsYou have patiently waited and asked for it, and after many years in development, the C&C Red Alert Redux mod officially has a public beta release! The Red Alert Redux v0.96 demo contains the base Allied and Soviet factions complete with 2 demo missions...
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Zero-K - completely free, very advanced and satisfying RTS made by gamers, for gamers.
zero-k.info Zero-KZero-K is a FREE multiplatform, open-source RTS game which aims to be dynamic and action-packed.
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Starcraft 2 Without Building ANYTHING?! (Wings of Liberty)
A fitting gameplay for a lawless terrorist. Mengsk will pay but the galaxy is too scared to rebel. Well, Raynor Raiders got your back :)
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Twisted Insurrection | GDI Campaign Mission 14 - Rage | (Hard) ~Tiberian Sun Mods~
Twisted insurrection is a true labor of love. If this were set in Tibarium Wars world, maybe the franchise would have a taken a darker yet more intriguing and creative turn.
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Warcraft 3: Curse of the Blood Elves REVAMP 01 - Misconceptions | Reforged campaigns as it should have been
If only the actual reforged campaigns are like this. Amazing how a fan made remake is better than Blizzard’s official one
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Kingdom: Two Crowns - it's quite peculiar hybrid of side-scroller and real-time strategy/resource management little game sporting pixel art and sweet OST
Apologies if it doesn't fit RTS genre very well. If so, please delete the thread, no explanations needed.
